时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Most New Zealanders will know about this tragedy which happened in Napier, a city on the East Coast of the North Island. It started on Thursday morning when three police officers arrived at a house to search for cannabis plants. Cannabis is a drug which is also called marijuana. The man who lived in the house arrived home after walking his dog to find the police officers at his house. The police officers were not armed and they did not wear bullet-proof jackets. They did not expect trouble. However, the man went inside and started shooting. One policeman is dead, two others are seriously injured and a neighbour who tried to take the gun away from the man is also seriously hurt in hospital.

The police Armed Offenders 1 Squad 2 were called. People who lived in the area were not allowed to go home and those who were already at home, were not allowed to leave. All day Friday and part of Saturday, police surrounded the house. The man continued to fire shots but the shots stopped some time on Saturday morning. Finally, police managed to enter the house and they found his body in a bedroom. They were worried that the man could have set wires to explosives 3 if they entered the house so they were very careful. They found weapons, bullets 4 and explosives in the house. The man did not have a gun licence 5.

Shootings like this are very unusual in New Zealand and police are not usually armed. This police officer who was shot dead is the 29th police officer killed while on duty since 1890.



n.冒犯者( offender的名词复数 );犯规者;罪犯;妨害…的人(或事物)
  • Long prison sentences can be a very effective deterrent for offenders. 判处长期徒刑可对违法者起到强有力的威慑作用。
  • Purposeful work is an important part of the regime for young offenders. 使从事有意义的劳动是管理少年犯的重要方法。
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
n.爆炸物,炸药( explosive的名词复数 )
  • They caved in the roof of the underground passage with powerful explosives. 他们用强大的炸药把地下通道的顶部炸塌陷了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The slightest spark can set off the explosives stored here. 一点点火星就能够使储存这里的火药爆炸。 来自《用法词典》
n.弹药;军火
  • The bodies of the hostages were found riddled with bullets. 在人质的尸体上发现了很多弹孔。
  • The bullets and cannon-balls were flying in all directions. 子弹和炮弹到处乱飞。
n.证书;许可证,执照;v.许可;批准
  • The restaurant applied for a licence to sell wine.那家餐厅申请售酒许可证。
  • He hadn't paid his television licence fee.他尚未缴纳电视机使用许可费。
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abak
acutely aware
aformers
air flask
anatectic earthquake
at one's own expense
bakers creek
bashkir
caballeros
call processing tasks
capacitor bushing
cavalierness
central rectrice
centrifugal refrigerating machine
cff (compressibility of formation fluid)
characteristic ion
cladoxylopsids
compacting by high explosive
Denkyera
disulfide group
double limit
dry abrasive cloth
dual-catalyst
Durandal
dyll
ecoalarmist
entered tonnage
epinephelus flavocaeruleus
epiparietals
equipotential contour
ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid
experimental development
father-of-six
Filago spathulata
film recording thermograph
fisetin
gate channel for repairing
gonatalgia
hand dressing
Hayama
hook conveyer
huvud
hydraulic-transmission
Indian relish
infra-median vein
kilerg
lateral meniscus
LHN
low carbon alloy
Lygodium palmatum
malaria survey
management training
mantodean
meganiche
merging data
merlon
middle meningeal artery
milk-shake
molecular equation
Mycoderma cerevisiae Hansen
National Petroleum Association
neutraling value
one-piece film
parallel association processor
pecorans
pelini
Pibul Songgram
pishamin
pointing out
prayerbooks
preplacode
private branch exchange,PBX
progermination
propellant outage
prox. acc
pseudo-operations
rapturizes
removing of the needle
rhusflavone
rozhdestvensky
safety mechanism
sarcoma virus
schmidt cameras
Sekenke
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slider control
smoot-hawleys
stabilized condition
start - up loan
status filters
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teacup dog
tecla
thin silk
tidal observations
Torilis scabra
trabeate
tractor binder
unitary gas conversion process
untameably
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